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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure IoT Central

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.N/A

    Spotfire Streaming

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AThe Spotfire Streaming (formerly TIBCO Streaming or StreamBase) platform is a high-performance system for rapidly building applications that analyze and act on real-time streaming data. Using Spotfire Streaming, users can rapidly build real-time systems and deploy them at a fraction of the cost and risk of other alternatives.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure IoT CentralSpotfire Streaming
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure IoT CentralSpotfire Streaming
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    Azure IoT CentralSpotfire Streaming
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Microsoft Azure IoT Central and Spotfire Streaming
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central
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    Ratings
    Spotfire Streaming
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Real-Time Data Analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Low Latency00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure IoT CentralSpotfire Streaming
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure IoT CentralSpotfire Streaming
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central has native integrations with Visual Studio (like pretty much all Microsoft products) making it pretty simple to publish apps to Azure App Service, where you can host all sorts of different applications. It does a really good job of storing large amounts of data (for instance, collected from IoT devices with various sensors) and it gets stored to multiple DBs. Azure IoT Central could improve by adding more customizations, as this would make troubleshooting the products easier and make future costs smaller and easier to predict.
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    Cloud Software Group
    Taking data from various sources including files, databases, web services, applying some complex rules, transforming, aggregating and producing a result. This is what Spotfire Streaming does best.
    - If one needs connectivity to special services as secured databases or web services, building interactive web apps, those are probably tasks that shall be addressed with different tools.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Processing events in real-time with real low latency and high throughput.
    • 100% visual program language, which can be extended by common languages like Java, Python and .NET.
    • Reduced time to prototype, create an application and deployment, which reduces the software lifecycle.
    • Real robust engine and server. Barely heard of customers having issues in production.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Being a niche tool, there's not much community support
    • It is on prem, making it slow to boot. not cloud native (It could be that it is our org's issue)
    • The dev environment is very tough to understand for large projects due to the wire style UI/UX
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    The usability is good in terms that it gets well integrated with the Spotfire suite but the only few issues I have is the tough UI/UX (learning curve, if the project is huge) and unable to find many users and devs to help with the queries. At the end it is solely based on the documentation provided which is never enough
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    Cloud Software Group
    Spotfire Streaming support is prompt and to the point. They help with best practices and learning from existing projects.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We are using Dataflow (by Google).The development time in Spotfire Streaming is definitely shorter because its GUI based. Dataflow handles late arrivals after the window closes, not sure Spotfire Streaming can do that. Dataflow can run GCP as a managed service which is why we chose that tool for our new product.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • positive: connected huge number of machines as IoT devices and passed them through entire IoT pipeline until storage in a fairly short time
    • negative: we spent some time figuring out some "less-used" services because they aren't documented well
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    Cloud Software Group
    • While we haven't specifically integrated Spotfire Streaming into our product development, it has allowed us to see the benefits of real-time streaming data.
    • We have much more visibility into how our longer term roadmap will look and what we should focus on.
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